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Review Of Emil Loriks: Builder Of A New Economic Order, Jonathan F. Wagner Jan 1988

Review Of Emil Loriks: Builder Of A New Economic Order, Jonathan F. Wagner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The author of Emil Loriks: Builder of a New Economic Order wrote the book in order to do justice to the life of her fellow South Dakotan Emil Loriks (1895-1985). Elizabeth Williams, an instructor of journalism and speech at South Dakota State University, has succeeded in producing a eulogy of an interesting and active farm leader. Her biographical portrait loudly praises Loriks for the variety of roles he played: as state legislator and Farm Holiday leader from 1927-34, as unsuccessful liberal Democratic candidate running against Republican Karl Mundt in 1938, as South Dakota Farmer's Union president during the later Depression, …

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Review Of After The West Was Won: Homesteaders And Town-Builders In Western South Dakota, 1900-1917, Joseph S. Wood Jan 1988

Review Of After The West Was Won: Homesteaders And Town-Builders In Western South Dakota, 1900-1917, Joseph S. Wood

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

After the West Was Won is about pioneering in western South Dakota on land unsettled by agriculturalists before 1900. Lakota hunters and Texas ranchers had lived successfully in this land of bountiful grass. Agricultural settlement, however, was a story "of dreams and ambitions thwarted" as farmers and townspeople alike learned "to make a virtue of living with less" than did those who had pioneered earlier frontiers.

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Review Of The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 2, August 30, 1803-August 24, 1804, The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 3, August 25, 1804-Apriz6, 1805, And The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 4, April7-July 27, 1805, Richard A. Bartlett Jan 1988

Review Of The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 2, August 30, 1803-August 24, 1804, The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 3, August 25, 1804-Apriz6, 1805, And The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 4, April7-July 27, 1805, Richard A. Bartlett

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1983 appeared Volume 1 of a projected eleven volume compilation of the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The first volume turned out to be an atlas, which came as something of a surprise to many scholars; yet the quality of the work-the editing, the annotations, and the incredible state-of-the-art graphics-commanded praise from the academic community. The thought that lay behind the atlas as Volume 1 was that it would furnish a working tool for those studying all the remaining ten volumes. The great question remaining was, what of the quality of the textual volumes to come?

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Review Of Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions Of A Texas Experience, Robert A. Calvert Jan 1988

Review Of Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions Of A Texas Experience, Robert A. Calvert

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Alamo Images is a catalog to accompany an exhibition of artifacts, artworks, books, broadsides, ephemera, memorabilia, pamphlets, motion picture posters, and other items relating to the Alamo that were displayed at Southern Methodist University in 1985 and 1986. The stated purpose of the book and of the exhibition was to "help explain both the Alamo of historical fact and the Alamo of our imagination" (p. 17). The general intellectual assumption behind the book was that the myth of the Alamo had evolved into such a historical icon of patriotism that any attempt at sorting out truth from fanciful fiction would …

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Review Of The Mythic West In Twentieth-Century America, Brian W. Dippie Jan 1988

Review Of The Mythic West In Twentieth-Century America, Brian W. Dippie

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Robert G. Athearn's The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America is the capstone to a distinguished career in Western history. It is also a considerable departure from his other work. Athearn began with frontier military history, wrote extensively on railroads and the history of the High Country Empire, and delved into the exodus of blacks into Kansas at the end of the 1870s. His West, the Plains, began one tier of states west of the Mississippi and stopped one short of the Pacific.

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Review Of Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke And His American West, Thomas William Dunlay Jan 1988

Review Of Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke And His American West, Thomas William Dunlay

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John Gregory Bourke (1846-1896) is best known to students of the American West as the author of On the Border with Crook, a classic record of frontier military life. He was also, like certain other army officers, among the pioneers of American anthropology. Like his commanding officer, General George Crook, he was a critic of federal Indian policy and an advocate of the rights of American Indians. His biography is, therefore, much more than the record of a frontier soldier. He is worthy of study as a chronicler of Western campaigns, a dedicated scholar of Indian culture, and a …

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Review Of Buckskins, Bullets, And Business: A History Of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Andrew Gulliford Jan 1988

Review Of Buckskins, Bullets, And Business: A History Of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Andrew Gulliford

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Of all the popular culture heroes of the American West, Buffalo Bill stands out as the quintessential frontiersman, hunter, Indian scout, cattle rancher, land speculator, and showman par excellence. The subject of countless dime novels, plays, melodramas, and no fewer than thirty five films, Colonel W. F. Cody was a living legend whose expertise in organizing and touring "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and Congress of Rough Riders of the World" made it one of the largest and longest running outdoor entertainments in history. For more than thirty years, between 1882 and 1913, the Wild West Show toured America and …

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Review Of The Dakota Or Sioux In Minnesota As They Were In 1854, Herbert T. Hoover Jan 1988

Review Of The Dakota Or Sioux In Minnesota As They Were In 1854, Herbert T. Hoover

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Gary Anderson introduces the reminiscence of a nineteenth-century missionary as a source "unrivaled today for its comprehensive discussion of Dakota material culture and social, political, religious, and economic institutions." With the term "unrivaled," evidently Professor Anderson assigns credence to the work of Pond, for he goes on to say that the missionary attempted "an objective assessment of the Dakota before their intercourse with whites· dramatically changed their society." Thus a prospective reader is likely to gain the impression that The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota is wholly reliable. A professional historian who has written two volumes on the history of …

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Plains Song: Wright Morris's New Melody For Audacious Female Voices, Linda M. Lewis Jan 1988

Plains Song: Wright Morris's New Melody For Audacious Female Voices, Linda M. Lewis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"Man's culture was a hoax. Was there a woman who didn't feel it? Perhaps a decade, no more, was available to women to save themselves, as well as the planet. Women's previous triumphs had been by default. Men had simply walked away from the scene of the struggle, leaving them with the children, the chores, the culture, and a high incidence of madness." The lines are from Wright Morris's Plains Song: for Female Voices; they represent a "brief resume" of the "forthcoming lecture" by Alexandra Selkirk, a feminist who has just arrived in Grand Island, Nebraska, to rally the …

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Review Of Hoofbeats And Society: Studies Of Human-Horse Interactions, Susanne Lindau Jan 1988

Review Of Hoofbeats And Society: Studies Of Human-Horse Interactions, Susanne Lindau

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Taking her 1982 book, Rodeo: An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame, a step further, cultural anthropologist and practicing veterinarian Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence here concentrates on the universal appeal of the horse. Horses, she states, "can be vivid images in human cognitive processes, and frequently serve as meaningful constructs in ordering social relations between people and the work around them" (p. ix). She explores various facets of the human-horse relationship to discover the special appeal and significance of horses in diverse societies.

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Review Of Agricultural Distress In The Midwest, Past And Present, James Lowenberg-Debore Jan 1988

Review Of Agricultural Distress In The Midwest, Past And Present, James Lowenberg-Debore

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As Gelfand states in his foreword, the purpose of the four papers in this book is to examine the farm problems in the Midwest from the late nineteenth century through the present, comparing reasons for agricultural distress and responses to the problems. Part of that objective is achieved. The first two papers present reasonable overviews of farm problems through the 1930s, with some insights from recent research. The book's plan falters in description of events after 1940 and lacks almost entirely comparisons between past and present.

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Review Of Historical Atlas Of Oklahoma, Frederick C. Luebke Jan 1988

Review Of Historical Atlas Of Oklahoma, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This new edition, which draws upon the 1980 census, updates an excellent historical atlas that was first published in 1%5. It includes eighty-three maps, of which perhaps a dozen incorporate new data. Each map is accompanied by a page of text that elucidates the map and often presents additional information. Besides standard historical topics,other subjects such as physiography, natural resources, population, and education are treated cartographically.

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Review Of Sam Shepard, Carolyn Perry Jan 1988

Review Of Sam Shepard, Carolyn Perry

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As Shepard creates myths of the modern world in his plays, Patraka and Siegel use these myths to categorize Shepard's works. Thus, their pamphlet systematically describes each plays it contributes to Shepard's unique portrayal of Western America. Realizing the complexity of each Shepard play, Patraka and Siegel do not attempt detailed textual analysis, but rather offer pertinent insights and explanations where most useful. Also, their explication is often enhanced by Shepard's own comments, which illuminate both the works and the playwright himself. Anyone interested in the works of Sam Shepard, and especially those unaccustomed to his ingenious, eccentric style, will …

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"The Greatest Thing I Ever Did Was Join The Union": A History Of The Dakota Teamsters During The Depression, Jonathan F. Wagner Jan 1988

"The Greatest Thing I Ever Did Was Join The Union": A History Of The Dakota Teamsters During The Depression, Jonathan F. Wagner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the Great Depression the Dakota Teamsters established themselves as the most important union on the northern Plains. 1 Their success involved struggle and sacrifice, with a full complement of setbacks and losses as well as advances and gains. From the 1930s on, the union has reflected certain of the general characteristics of the parent body, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. Like the International, the Dakota Teamsters was always basically a truck drivers' union, but also something more. As with the International, the concept of jurisdiction was elastic. "In our teamsters union," the Minot, …

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The Use Of Cognitive Heuristics In College Choice, Kelly Smith Jan 1988

The Use Of Cognitive Heuristics In College Choice, Kelly Smith

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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The Acoustical Function Of The Lower Jaw Of The Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops Truncatus (Montagu), During Echolocation, Randall Louis Brill Jan 1988

The Acoustical Function Of The Lower Jaw Of The Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops Truncatus (Montagu), During Echolocation, Randall Louis Brill

Dissertations

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Attributional Style, Depression, And Their Relationship To Gender And Gender Role Orientation, Karen M. Latza Jan 1988

Attributional Style, Depression, And Their Relationship To Gender And Gender Role Orientation, Karen M. Latza

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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The Validity Of Credentialing Tests: An Application Of Content, Criterion-Related, And Construct Valitation Strategies To A Medical Laboratory Practitioner Certification Examination, James Robert Fidler Jan 1988

The Validity Of Credentialing Tests: An Application Of Content, Criterion-Related, And Construct Valitation Strategies To A Medical Laboratory Practitioner Certification Examination, James Robert Fidler

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Couple Cohesion: Differences Between Clinical And Non-Clinical Mormon Couples, Colleen Margaret Peterson Jan 1988

Couple Cohesion: Differences Between Clinical And Non-Clinical Mormon Couples, Colleen Margaret Peterson

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examined the differences between 30 clinical and 30 non-clinical Mormon married couples on the perceived and ideal cohesion scores on the FACES III family typology instrument. Two three-way analyses of variance were done to examine these differences. the results provided evidence that there were significant differences between cohesion scores in clinical and non-clinical couples Both the clinical and non-clinical ideal scores fell close to the enmeshed end of the cohesion dimension of the Circumplex Model. The mean perceived cohesion scores, however, showed a difference between the clinical and non-clinical couples. The clinical couple mean scores fell in the …

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Presidential Influence On Congressional Appropriations Decisions, D.Roderick Kiewiet, Mathew D. Mccubbins Jan 1988

Presidential Influence On Congressional Appropriations Decisions, D.Roderick Kiewiet, Mathew D. Mccubbins

Faculty Scholarship

We investigate the extent to which possession of the veto allows the president to influence congressional decisions regarding regular annual appropriations legislation. The most important implication of our analysis is that the influence the veto conveys is asymmetrical: it allows the president to restrain Congress when he prefers to appropriate less to an agency than Congress does; it does not provide him an effective means of extracting higher appropriations from Congress when he prefers to spend more than it does. This asymmetry derives from constitutional limitations on the veto, in combination with the presence of a de facto reversionary expenditure …

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Comparative Psychology And The Recursive Structure Of Filter Explanations, Peter Lipton, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1988

Comparative Psychology And The Recursive Structure Of Filter Explanations, Peter Lipton, Nicholas S. Thompson

Faculty Works

Examines 1 of 2 filter theories that may interact in comparative psychology: Darwin's theory of natural selection. Natural selection and learning theory (the other filter theory) claim that current features of an organism's behavior or structure are filtered out of a range of earlier features. While Darwinian explanations are rarely circular, they have a peculiar logical structure that makes them easy to confuse with circular explanations and are vulnerable to other explanatory hazards. Ambivalence concerning Darwin's theory and sources of confusion from which questions about the theory arise are addressed. Implications for evolutionists are discussed.

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Letter To Claire Engel Regarding Award Of The Lucile Elliott Scholarship, 1988, Terri O. Saye Jan 1988

Letter To Claire Engel Regarding Award Of The Lucile Elliott Scholarship, 1988, Terri O. Saye

Scholarship Committee

A letter from Terri O. Saye to Claire Engel accepting the Lucile Elliott Scholarship awarded to Saye. Undated, circa 1988.

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Southeastern Law Librarian Additional Materials 1988-1990, Seaall Jan 1988

Southeastern Law Librarian Additional Materials 1988-1990, Seaall

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

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In-House Publications Clearinghouse Survey Materials And Report, June 23, 1988, Jean Holcomb Jan 1988

In-House Publications Clearinghouse Survey Materials And Report, June 23, 1988, Jean Holcomb

Newsletter and Public Relations Committee

Materials and documents relating to the In-House Publications Clearinghouse Survey. Includes a report by Susan Blackman and Jean Holcomb on the establishment of a home base for the Clearinghouse at the Norfolk Law Library.

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A Controlled Evaluation Of Devotional Meditation And Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Charles R. Carlson, Panayiota E. Bacaseta, Dexter A. Simanton Jan 1988

A Controlled Evaluation Of Devotional Meditation And Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Charles R. Carlson, Panayiota E. Bacaseta, Dexter A. Simanton

CRVAW Faculty Journal Articles

The present study was conducted to determine the effects of devotional meditation (DM), defined as a period of prayer and quiet reading and pondering of biblical material, on physiological and psychological variables related to stress. It was hypothesized that religious persons engaging in DM experience physiological and psychological changes similar to those reported for persons using progressive relaxation (PR) exercises. Thirty-six participants, equally divided by sex into 3 groups: DM, PR, and a Wait List Control, underwent extensive psychophysiological assessment prior to and following a systematic introductio to either DM or PR. The hypothesis that DM could generate positive physiological …

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A Charisma Model Of Telepathic Communication, James M. Donovan Jan 1988

A Charisma Model Of Telepathic Communication, James M. Donovan

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This paper opened by making some general criticisms of the state of parapsychological research: that it suffered from a lack of external validity and from uncritical acceptance of a flawed paradigm. The charisma model was offered as an attempt to rectify these problems. It allows for laboratory experiments to be designed which closely approximate genuine human interactions by shifting the paradigm for telepathy from that of energy transfers to one of communication events.

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Leader Sex And Task Orientation: An Information Processing Perspective, Thomas Arthur Buhr Jan 1988

Leader Sex And Task Orientation: An Information Processing Perspective, Thomas Arthur Buhr

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

The role of leadership and its effect on small group function and efficiency has led to a wealth of research data. Of particular importance to the real world outside the laboratory and the classroom are the leadership variables of sex and task orientation. In the last two decades, women have assumed more leadership positions in the business and political world than at any other time in the past (White, De Sanctis & Crino, 1981). In addition, there has been a call to examine the many different ways a leader can approach the group to accomplish a task (Fiedler, 1978). Two …

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Mandate For Fear Appeal Research: A Clearer Perspective, Elizabeth Cheney Michel Jan 1988

Mandate For Fear Appeal Research: A Clearer Perspective, Elizabeth Cheney Michel

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

The fear appeal is one of the most prevalent types of persuasion evident in society. A great percentage of advertising bases its success on "an appeal calculated to elicit anxiety on the part of the listener" (Miller, 1963, p. 117). Children have been reared on its admonitions. Nearly every American is by now familiar with the Surgeon General's Warning. The recent AIDS epidemic has prompted a highly consequential use of this appeal. If the effectuality of everyday fear persuasions can be left to chance, choice, or Mother Nature, this last lethal onslaught demands immediate attention from the communication community. An …

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An Ecological Perspective On Deafness, Michael A. Harvey, Barry Dym Jan 1988

An Ecological Perspective On Deafness, Michael A. Harvey, Barry Dym

JADARA

This paper offers an ecological view of deaf ness to assist rehabilitation counselors and clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of problems that deaf persons may present. An ecological perspective identifies the many hierarchically arranged, biopsychhsocial levels which influence the development of deaf persons. It further identifies the sequences of interaction (the exchanges of information) which occur both within and between levels, and which include the creation, labeling and reifying of symptoms. The organization of ecological fields is described by a cybernetic model from the discipline of family therapy. A detailed case example is presented.

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On The Nature And Antiquity Of The Manix Lake Industry, Douglas Bamforth, Ronald Dorn Jan 1988

On The Nature And Antiquity Of The Manix Lake Industry, Douglas Bamforth, Ronald Dorn

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

The antiquity of human occupation in the New World undoubtedly is one of the major unresolved culture-historical problems in North American prehistory. On the one hand, a dominant position with a long history in American archaeology (cf. Wilmsen 1965) holds that human beings arrived in the New World at the close of the Pleistocene, no longer than 12,000 years ago, and that Clovis sites represent the oldest occupation in the Americas (Haynes 1970; Martin 1973; Waters 1985). On the other hand, a less widely accepted school of thought sees a variety of evidence for human occupation in the Americas well …

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